Commodities and Downstream Integration Policies: the Challenges of a Complex Strategy

The Policy Center for the New South, under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, has hosted the 11th edition of its annual Atlantic Dialogues International Conference in Marrakech from December 14 to 16, 2022. Over 350 guests from 60 different countries have taken part in this first in-person edition in three years, under the theme “Cooperation in a Mutating World: Opportunities of the Wider Atlantic”. The most recent edition in this format, held in 2019 address “The S ...

Rares sont les sociétés africaines qui ont gardé, enseigné et transmis une écriture aux générations futures. Jusqu’à nos jours, seules deux graphies ont survécu à l’oubli, la négligence et aux tourmentes de l’histoire : l’écriture amharique en Éthiopie et le tifinagh chez les Touaregs. La traite esclavagiste et les colonisations ont bloqué, d’une manière brutale, l’évolution naturelle de la culture et de la civilisation africaines. Le manque de traces scripturales de ...

This Chapter was originally published on Cape Town Chronicles   The history of debt in Africa is a long and painful one. It began in the 1980s, when the public finances of most developing countries deteriorated following two episodes of oil shocks, leading to a "lost decade" of low growth, increased poverty, and political instability. The recovery from the debt crisis only became possible following initiatives in favour of heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and the Multilatera ...

In the space of one day in late July 2023, the fate of Mohamed Bazoum, 63, changed completely; the comfort of his palace was replaced by a small dark room. The occupant was reduced from president of the 27 million-strong nation of Niger to criminal, facing charges of high treason and undermining the security of the nation (Reuters, August 14, 2023). His accusers were a military junta, led by the commander of the Presidential Guard, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, now self-imposed Pre ...